Źródła finansowania zadań oświatowych JST w latach 2012–2016 ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem miast na prawach powiatu

The article analyses public spending on education at the local level in Poland in the last 5 years. It begins with outlining the legal regulations and financial conditions of providing education by local government units. Next, the author compares budgetary and non-budgetary sources of financing education by local government, the cities with county rights, and the city Lublin. Special attention is given to the educational component of general subsidies from state budget as the main source of education funding in Poland. The article concludes that complicated system of financing education strongly determines local government units’ decisions.